DSO Staff

Anthony Princiotti, Music Director and Conductor

Anthony Princiotti, Music Director and Conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, is also the Associate Conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Music Director and Conductor of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also served as Assistant Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra and, from 1993 to 1996, as Director of Instrumental Music and Conductor at Amherst College. As a guest conductor, Princiotti has appeared with the Vermont Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, the Sao Paolo State Symphony and the New England String Ensemble.

Princiotti began his musical training at the age of four, studying the violin with his father. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1980 from the Juilliard School, where he studied violin with Oscar Shumsky and viola with William Lincer. As a graduate student at Juilliard, he studied conducting with Sixten Ehrling and Alfred Wallenstein. In 1987, Princiotti was the recipient of a conducting fellowship at Tanglewood where he studied with Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier and Seiji Ozawa. Princiotti received his Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music in 1991, and received his Doctorate in 1999. At Yale, his principal teachers were Eleazar de Carvalho and Günther Herbig. He was also a recipient of the Marshall Bartholomew Scholarship, the Charles Ives Scholarship, and the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize.

Between 1981 and 1987, Princiotti was first violinist with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, a New Hampshire-based ensemble that specialized in the chamber music repertoire for piano and strings. As a member of Apple Hill, he performed 70-80 concerts annually throughout the United States and taught every summer at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. During this time, he also served as the music director and conductor of the Brandeis Symphony Orchestra. His other interests include running, hiking, tai-chi and motorcycles. Princiotti resides in Walpole, NH.

Marcia Cassidy, Assistant Director of String Sectionals

Marcia Cassidy is a Senior Lecturer in Music at Dartmouth College and has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan to critical acclaim as a member of the Franciscan String Quartet. She pursued her musical training at the University of Texas, University of New Mexico, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, and with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Yale School of Music. Her principal teachers have included Geraldine Walther, Burton Fine, Leonard Felberg, Stephen Clapp, and Doris Norton. She is currently principal viola of Opera North, and a member of The Musicians of the Old Post Road (period chamber music ensemble in Boston).

Student Managers: Edward Kim '09, Elizabeth Shribman '10

Hopkins Center Ensembles Administrative Assistant: Stephen Langley